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> [Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/political-freedom-without-economic-freedom-is-almost-worthless-and-it/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

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## More by Hilaire Belloc

> [All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/all-men-have-an-instinct-for-conflict-at-least-all-healthy-men/)

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> [Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/kings-live-in-palaces-and-pigs-in-sties-and-youth-in-expectation/)

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> [Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/communism-worked-honestly-by-officials-devoid-of-human-frailties-and/)

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> [I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/i-put-my-pencil-upon-the-paper-doubtfully-and-drew-little-lines/)

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> [Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/had-there-been-any-existent-vital-and-energetic-institution-left-in/)

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> [Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/before-the-curse-of-statistics-fell-upon-mankind-we-lived-a-happy/)

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> [Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/of-old-when-folk-lay-sick-and-sorely-tried-the-doctors-gave-them/)

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> [It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/it-is-mind-which-determines-the-change-of-society-and-it-was-because/)

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> [For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/for-no-one-in-our-long-decline-so-dusty-spiteful-and-divided-had/)

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> [The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-smaller-man-approaching-our-modern-banking-system-which-controls/)

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> [Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/under-the-old-philosophy-which-had-governed-the-high-middle-ages/)

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> [Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/torture-will-give-a-dozen-pence-or-more-to-keep-a-drab-from-bawling/)

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> [Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/of-courtesy-it-is-much-less-than-courage-of-heart-or-holiness-yet-in/)

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> [The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-very-large-units-of-production-and-exchange-have-access-to-credit/)

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> [The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-terror-in-which-english-capitalists-now-stand-of-organized/)

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